Search Results: Sex & Death from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 5 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Joyce had neither been a virgin or a fool when she married. She had taken George for better or worse and so far she quietly admitted to herself it had been much worse ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

No place: no publisher, no date [1960s]. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated [48 pp.], including several full page illustrations from drawings. Pictorial stapled stiff paper wraps.
Slight edge wear, briefly rubbed, lightly soiled, staples rusted, Very Good. A horrifying tale of aggressive sex. The rear wrap indicates that the title was "printed in the USA." Unlocated via OCLC.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957} First edition, first state (with title page printed in blue, and "walking" for "waking" on page 80, line 1) Octavo (85" x 575"), 6 preliminary leaves, 3 - 339, & [1] pp Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver & decorated in pale green, in pictorial dust jacketMargins sunned, dust jacket titling faintly offset to upper cover, bottom corners lightly bumped, previous owner's name in ink at front free endpaper, small booksellers' label at rear pastedown, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with brief edge wear & rubbingPublished posthumously, Agee's autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize "On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly Dancing back and forth… Read More

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled & sunned, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Clara Bridges was a hunter - a hunter of men. A beautiful woman in the full bloom of her early twenties, full of youth, her instincts alive and urgent; she was the personification of feminine temptation. Above all else, Clare craved the intimacies of sex ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

New York, N.Y.: Parc Publishing Company, Volume iv, No. 25, April 9, 1967; Volume iv, No. 33, June 4, 1967; Volume iv, No. 35, June 18, 1967; Volume v, No. 4, October 29, 1967 First editions, four folio tabloid newspapers (15" x 11.25"), 20 pp. each, illustrated.
Folded horizontally, moderately tattered & toned, otherwise good or better.
Features sensational headlines & fascinating articles including "They Maim and Torture for Profit," "Phony Health Officer Made Wives Strip," "Rapist Demands: You or Your Daughter," "Rapist Caught in the Act While Crowd Watches," and "Coed Claims It's Square to be a Virgin."

Detroit: Johnson Smith & Co., no date [ca 1925]. Small 8vo, unpaginated [36 pp.], including illustrated front wrapper. Publisher's pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Trace edge wear, moderately toned, otherwise very good.
The story of John "Babbacombe" Lee relayed in the first person who survived execution by hanging on three different occasions in February of 1885. After the final attempt the attending medical officer declined to proceed. Released from prison in 1907, Lee emigrated to the United States where he died in 1945. The story inspired the 1971 album "Babbacombe Lee" by the English folk rock group Fairport Convention, making it the first "folk rock opera" in music history.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes, 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"), variously paginated, uniformly (and exquisitely) bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons (signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper) ca. 19-teens. Full dark brown crushed morocco, the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment, with elegant tooling in black wrapping the spines onto both boards mimicking coptic fastenings tied up with fleur-de-lys fasteners. Top edges gilt, floral blind-tooled inner dentelles, brown laid-paper doublures, and brown satin-ribbon page-markers bound in, with velvet-lined, tan cloth over board slipcase.
A few ribbon markers frayed, occasional light rubbing mostly at the joints, otherwise about Fine in slipcase which is soiled & stained mostly at the back of the box.
A lovely set of "Love in Leather," as we like to call it, which is perhaps more aptly characterized (courtesy Raymond Carver) as "What We Talk About When We… Read More

New York, N.Y. : Inter-Press Corporation, Volume 7, No. 5, October 24, 1966: Volume 8, No. 13, June 19, 1967; Volume 9, No. 8, November 13, 1967. First editions, three folio tabloid newspapers (15" x 11.25"), 16 pp. each, illustrated.
Folded horizontally, moderately tattered & toned, June 19th issue with two inch tear without loss pervasive throughout, otherwise good or better.
Features sensational headlines & fascinating articles including "Attacked by Four Men, Movie Actress Charges … YOU RAPED ME," He Rapes Teen Girl Then Sells Her to His Dad," "Harlots Hook American GI's in Vietnam," "Hippies Lead a Happy Life and "Squares" Often Foot the Bill," and "A Ku Klux Kutie - Heaven Help Us."

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
Young Betty Jean Cracker is routinely disciplined by women but, none-the-less, enjoys frequent dalliances with men.
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

No place (New York ?): National Casket Company, no date (circa 1920's). Original brochure, single sheet measuring 6.25 inches by 10.25 inches folded three times vertically forming 8 panels printed recto & verso on light paper, with illustrations, some in color.
Slightly toned, otherwise Fine.
"Made of the finest quality of selected mohair. Soft, curly centers. Wide, attractive borders blend beautifully with the lighter tones of the centers. Lie flat and will not curl at the corners. Heavy backing material keeps these rugs from losing their shape and adds to their strength and serviceability. Imported exclusively for funeral purposes by the National Casket Company."

[Spurious imprint]. Paris: Olympia Press, Traveller's Companion Series number 28, (1956) but later, ca. 1960's. Two sextodecimo volumes (6.75" x 4.25"), 208 pages (continuously paginated). Publisher's printed light card covers, part one in pale green, part two in light blue. This version not found in OCLC as of 2/22/2024.
Margins lightly sunned, trace edge wear, minor internal toning, otherwise very good or better.
A pirated edition quite probably actually published in London. Crudely printed but replete with the tale of the difficulties ensued when one finds a gorgeous woman burned to death in one's bed. The solution, of course, is to seek out "Mr. Big" but first one must pass through a number of beautiful girls skilled in the art of love.

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 6 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"Again I sought Dorothy's society, who helped further to destroy any lingering prejudices I still had, about the ways in which the sexes may use their genitals, either in giving pleasure to each other, or men with men, or women ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint

No place, The Collector's Library, no date, (ca. 1950's). 24mo (5.5" x 4.25"), 32 pages including 3 full page explicit illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, pale blue paper wraps, stapled.
Crudely printed causing ghosting & portions of text to be light but not illegible, lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good.
"My introduction to the pleasures, and mysteries that have ever been associated with the couch of Love was not entrusted to a novice; no timid, simpering girl taking her first step toward the realization of forbidden joys but to a woman; a woman of thirty ..."
Quite like those spurious imprints from the 40s with "illustrations from life," we have been unable to locate any other examples of this title or imprint